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PDF files are more than a little complex. At work, we use a PDF Library
(which is available from Datalogics) to access the contents of a PDF file.
This is an EXPENSIVE library.

Unless you can find a .Net component that can read PDF files, what you are
talking about is NOT, repeat NOT, a simple automation. You are dealing with:
1. The complexities of a PDF file which can represent the contents of a
single page in an order that has NOTHING to do with the order in which the
text is displayed
2. The complexities of pasting large amounts of text into Excel (please
note that PDF files do NOT use tabs, so there's nothing Excel can use to
identify columns and rows)
3. The complexities of trying to launch another application (such as
Acrobat Reader), get a handle for that application, send commands to it, use
the clipboard, and so on.

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